Multiple IMs

DJ Prem · 21 Apr 2011 at 08:11

With so many IM systems WLM, Googletalk, Skype, FB, Yahoo! Messenger. Does everyone install all the IM clients or do you install a multiple IMs client like Trillian, Pidgin? Share your opinion and the IM client you use.

DJMK4 · 21 Apr 2011 at 08:12

I only use MSN Live Messenger, but this is mainly for work, otherwise I use facebook.

sHo0sH · 21 Apr 2011 at 08:14

I call my friends up if I want to speak to them. If not it is facebook chat. The rest of the messengers I gave up on years ago

meghatronic · 21 Apr 2011 at 08:20

sHo0sH said:
The rest of the messengers I gave up on years ago

I use MSN for two people, Skype for one person, Steam for one person.

Used to talk to dozens of people on MSN/Yahoo. Funny how I haven't replaced the medium - we just talk in real life now.

Abraham · 21 Apr 2011 at 08:34

meghatronic said:
I use MSN for two people, Skype for one person, Steam for one person.

Used to talk to dozens of people on MSN/Yahoo. Funny how I haven't replaced the medium - we just talk in real life now.

Pretty much this, I have MSN logged in on my work PC and have a few people I'll talk to on their rather than texting if they're online, don't use fb chat.

That said I suppose some of that previous social chat has moved to twitter for me.

Derek W · 21 Apr 2011 at 08:34

Cheekykid has them all so he can meet up with lots of foreign hottied

meghatronic · 21 Apr 2011 at 09:00

Derek W said:
Cheekykid has them all so he can meet up with lots of foreign hottied

I guess Romania still uses IM

Rainmaker · 21 Apr 2011 at 09:15

I just use Adium (OS X). Much easier and has features some of the original clients miss out on (eg end-to-end encryption).

rG-tom · 21 Apr 2011 at 09:29

it really ****s me off that people use facebook chat instead of MSN these days, it's unreliable and you can't exactly minimise facebook to the tray!

Narj · 21 Apr 2011 at 09:32

rG-tom said:
it really ****s me off that people use facebook chat instead of MSN these days, it's unreliable and you can't exactly minimise facebook to the tray!

This.

I miss the days of ICQ and random chat... was quite hilarious on occasion.

Rainmaker · 21 Apr 2011 at 09:34

PianoBasher said:
This.

I miss the days of ICQ and random chat... was quite hilarious on occasion.

ICQ ruled.

I must admit though these days I'm finding I'm back on IRC more and more. While Skype's not too bad (when they're not releasing updates that kill the app entirely), most clients - especially WLM - are pure fail these days. They're bloated to all hell, try to be everything to everyone and, again in the case of the new WLM, are buggy as hell.

IRC just works, it's light, supports encryption and no n00bs know how to bother me on there. Win.

Narj · 21 Apr 2011 at 09:56

Rainmaker said:
IRC just works, it's light, supports encryption and no n00bs know how to bother me on there. Win.

Ahhh IRC... Used to run eggdrops on a solaris box to help me + friends get up to michief back in the days where you could take advantage of splits and also when hardly anyone had firewalls to protect them from all the script kiddie Windows9x exploits.

I thought IRC would have been dead and buried by now?

Rainmaker · 21 Apr 2011 at 09:59

PianoBasher said:
Ahhh IRC... Used to run eggdrops on a solaris box to help me + friends get up to michief back in the days where you could take advantage of splits and also when hardly anyone had firewalls to protect them from all the script kiddie Windows9x exploits.

I thought IRC would have been dead and buried by now?

Wash your mouth out! IRC's as useful (and busy) as ever. Granted I mostly use it for tech rooms these days (Linux dev rooms, Usenet chans etc) but it's still hella busy. Gotta love IRC.

FNGsam · 21 Apr 2011 at 09:59

Eh, just use facebook chat on rare occasions, much like most others have said I talk IRL now.

Narj · 21 Apr 2011 at 10:02

Rainmaker said:
Wash your mouth out! IRC's as useful (and busy) as ever. Granted I mostly use it for tech rooms these days (Linux dev rooms, Usenet chans etc) but it's still hella busy. Gotta love IRC.

Might give it another go actually and see what's changed... what are the most popular networks these days?

Ksanti · 21 Apr 2011 at 10:05

Facebook for most, I used to use MSN for about a dozen people none of whom I speak to (at least on msn) any more, Yahoo! for two people and Steam for two as well.

I used pidgin for a bit but it was bugging me, just didn't like it that much

Rainmaker · 21 Apr 2011 at 10:07

PianoBasher said:
Might give it another go actually and see what's changed... what are the most popular networks these days?

I spend most of my time on Freenode and p2p-net, the former is rather busy to say the least. Way too many networks to try them all now though. Efnet is still going, as is Dalnet, but I don't use them so much now.

[FnG]magnolia · 21 Apr 2011 at 10:13

well, I didn't mean THAT

whoops

Sin_Chase · 21 Apr 2011 at 10:31

I used to stick to WLM, patched to strip out the mess and elt me open multiple instances.

These days with FB chat et al I use Pidgin, much easier.

Pawnless Endgame · 21 Apr 2011 at 10:52

Yeah it used to be all about ICQ and the funny sound it used to make when you received an IM.

Nowadays, I have about 3 people on MSN and the same again on Gtalk. I use Pidgin as my cross-network IM, bit like Trillian.